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Deus Encarmine (Blood Angels) (Mass Market Paperback)

by James Swallow (Author)
2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Black Library (16 Dec 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844161544
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844161546
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.6 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 345,620 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'A story packed with action and hardcore military sci-fi in a dark and brutal universe.' - RPG United"

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The Space Marines are the most popular of all of the forces fighting in the grim future of Warhammer 40,000, and the Blood Angels are possibly the most popular of all the Marine Chapters. In the first of two linked novels, rising Black Library (and Black Flame!) star James Swallow reveals the gore-soaked secrets of the Blood Angels for the very first time. Retreating from an inglorious defeat, the Space Marines are reinforced by a new army led by their legendary primarch, Sanguinius. But Sanguinius has been dead for centuries, so what by all that is holy is going on?
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars A wasted opportunity, 23 Jan 2007
By lone pilgrim (Skolarii Sector) - See all my reviews
As a long time Blood Angel player (from Rogue Trader days) I was looking forward to reading this book. In my view the Blood Angels have had a hard time of late due to a very dodgy third edition codex. This was overpowering rules-wise and left many Blood Angels players and their opponents with a negative view of the chapter. The slim mini-codex also had little space devoted to background material, so new players had no real insight into the motivations behind the chapter. With a set of broken rules and no context to place them in the Blood Angels got a very bad reputation on the tabletop battlefields of the 41st millennium. I hoped this book would reinstate that.

Sadly it doesn't. Deus Encarmine doesn't really convey the full richness and depth of the Chapter. The Blood Angels have a lot of internal conflicts that could make for a great narrative but they aren't really developed or explored here. For example, the Blood Angels are created from shambling mutants on Baal and become shining Space Marines. Because they are so long lived they have the time to hone their artistic skills and have the most ornate armour and banners of any Chapter. At the same time they are susceptible to the Black Rage and can become homicidal maniacs. They are forever torn between the height of civilisation, art, and the depths of barbarism, murder. I got the feeling in reading Deus, that the Blood Angels could have been substituted for any other Chapter without much revision and without substantially changing the plot or characters.

I have another problem in Inquisitor Stele, who commands many Blood Angels. My understanding is that the Blood Angels are loathe to trust outsiders, especially Inquisitors, who may be exposed to their rage and therefore expose their failing geneseed. I just didn't buy his position of authority within the Chapter. He had to be there to make the plot work but I felt it ruined the internal consistency of the novel.

Another section of the book I struggled with was the flashback to Baal. That also felt tacked on and forced. It sketched out the relationships of the main characters in a very schematic way without conveying any real character. In the end I really didn't care much about the predicament of any of the protagonists.

In fact the whole book seemed very thin; on plot, on detail, on character.

There are some positive points, though. The action scenes are written well. They are pacy and very cinematic. In many scenes I could imagine a computer game version of the events running in my head as I read. And at least it is some focus and attention on the Blood Angels.

Deus Encarmine is a wasted opportunity to explore the Blood Angels Chapter. The plotting, character and detail are lacking but the action scenes are involving.
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Blood Angels story, 5 April 2005
This book was an excellent read i found and kept me reading and entertained all the way to the end. It has the Blood Angels pitted against the Chaos Word Bearers and has alot of behind the scenes actions which wont be revealed to the second book but the graphic nature with which the author describes events is excellent and you feel like your there watching the events unfold.

Without giving too much away you follow the events a Blood Angel Brother Rafen and unlike a usual soldier does not simply take things as they are and always probes and thinks about situations. But also this book has accounts from the other side from the Chaos Word Bearers and allows you to see how perhaps some higher up powers are playing the two sides together for a reason you have to read on to find out!

I'm not stooped in the knowledge of the Blood Angels that well and so cant comment but know it does include key characters that any fan will know but the story is the main point of the book and what it tells is quite amazing. With all the events unfolding I cant wait to pick up the second and concluding book.

A must read espically for those Space Marine lovers out there.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid!, 14 Jun 2008
His first foray into the 41st millenium and he screws around with my favourite legion/chapter. Seriously he clearly has no understanding of this chapter, its history, structure, traditions and beliefs. Having an Inquisitor commanding blood angels and reclaiming a sanguinuis artefacts is so wrong in so many ways. I agree wholeheartedly with the longer above written review.

If you want to read anything from James Swallow you should read Flight of the Eisenstein, which clearly shows he has grown and it is one of my favourite heresy books.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Too bland to be truely terrible
I have no idea of how this book got through Games Workshop's quality control. This is the pinnacle of milking the franchise by grinding out novels from talentless writers... Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Do your homework
Call me a nerd if you like but this book was so inaccurate with its background knowledge of the 40k universe that it ruined what could of been a good book. Read more
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